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contemplation
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05.20.08MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE.I think if I am ever personally confronted with the ostensible short-comings of my generation, I will widen my eyes in disbelief, furrow my brow in mock concern, lower my voice in full and somberly declare, "We survived 9/11."
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05.10.08WRINKLES? DO WANT!All of the visual media I have consumed over the past two weeks--the uninspiring movie version of Ghost World, almost the entirety of the inaugural season of 30Rock, and the first half of The Big Lebowski--have featured the singularly peculiar personage of Steve Buscemi, a strange and delightful series of coincidences that leaves my interest piqued for May-December romance with a snaggletoothed curmudgeon.
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03.22.08WEB-WHORE. AND PROUD OF IT.As nauseating as it sounds, I cannot stand non-web-2.0 sites; I initially chalked it up to a design issue, but I now realize that is much, much more--I am lost without the ontology of tags (and the promise of emergent meta-data!), the dearth of read/writedness (I do not fear the new online colectivism! I embrace it! Whole-heartedly, even!), superflous page-loads (eff synchronicity and hand me the AJAX!), and un-open formats--and, well, you know: there's also the fact that serif fonts, unrounded corners, and unmuted, harsh colours make me want to stab myself in the eye1. Alright, so maybe it is just ...
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01.30.08Je suis fatigué!Election season is so very strange; granted, this is really only the second time that I've notably gone through it - my forced volunteering for the Green Party in 2000 nonwithstanding - but it already seems a tedious process, which may very well be due to projecting my own experiences on the whole affair: being relatively involved in activism last time around, and paying far too much attention in far too much depth far too early this time around...I feel myself unwillingly drawn into all of the sturm und drang - checking the NYTimes coverage, actually reading Wonkette again (though ...